Reviews: Huff, Tanya

A Peace Divided —
Tanya Huff
Peacekeeper, book 2

2017’s
A
Peace Divided
is the second novel in Tanya Huff’s
Peacekeeper series.

War’s
end means that many former soldiers are dumped back into civilian
life. Not all of the veterans are suited to peacetime occupations.
Some, like Gunnery
Sergeant Torin Kerr and her team, find gainful employment as Wardens,
the interstellar police of the Confederation. Less fortunate
cast-offs, like Commander Yurrisk
and his soldiers, become
bandits and mercenaries.

33X73’s
natives vanished long before the Confederation was formed. Even at
their height, they never got close to star-flight or Elder-Race-level
technology. Why then did Yurrisk’s mercenaries attack and occupy an
archaeological dig on 33X73?

The
fact that the attackers are drawn from both Confederation and Primacy
forces is a clue. Though rivals, the two polities do have a mutual
enemy: the so-called plastic aliens. 33X73 offers a unique
opportunity to hit back at the enemy.

An Ancient Peace —
Tanya Huff
Peacekeeper, book 1

Set
in the same Confederation universe as her Valor novels, 2015’s An
Ancient Peace is the first volume in Tanya Huff’s Peacekeeper series.

A
covert op seems like a useful application of the skills of Torin
Kerr’s elite squad … as well as a welcome distraction from the
revelation that the war that killed so many was an enigmatic
civilization’s science project. And it’s not as if the op is
unimportant: the future of the human and other Younger races may
depend on what it finds.